The 17 Day Diet – Cycle 2

I am well into Cycle 2 of the 17 day diet.

I lost 12 pounds in the first 17 day cycle.  Dr. Mike estimates you to lose 50% of the weight you lose in the first cycle, in the second cycle.  That would be an additional 6 pounds for me.  However, I have lost absolutely nothing in the first 10 days.  I am officially finished with this cycle on Saturday of this week.  Today is Monday.  I have gone to the extreme of hiding my scale in the back of my closet because I was obsessing on how much weight I haven’t lost.  I can tell you for a heavy woman, to eat very little variety, and work out regularly, and still not lose weight is perhaps one of the most frustrating feelings I can have in my life.

I am doing everything the way you I am supposed to do it, and the scale will still not budge.  And the scale has a lot of budging that it is still able to do if I want to get down to my goal weight.  It makes you want to just say screw it and go have a hamburger or something, because you would weigh the same thing if you devoured a hamburger that you weigh from eating a salad and doing your work out.

What gives?

Here is a recap of what my cycle 1 day was today:

350 calorie Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs (140 calories), with a 1/8 cup lowfat probiotic milk (16 calories), 1 oz colby jack shredded cheese (37 calories), ground turkey breast (120 calories) with mexican seasoning (15 calories), onions (15 calories) and bellpeppers (6 calories)

Snack: Apple (95 calories)

589 calorie Lunch: turkey burger (240 calories) with a tbspn of light mayo (50 calories) and  ketchup (30 calories) to dip in.  Carrots (50 calories) cooked in 1 tbspn olive oil (119 calories), with dill and salt and pepper.  Juice of one squeezed orange (100 calories).

280 calorie Snack: Iced Coffee with homemade agave chocolate syrup (150 cals)  and 8 oz probiotic milk (130 calories)

40 calorie Snack:  (15 calories) dipped in Hidden Valley Ranch dip made with Vosko’s greek yogurt (25 cals)(1 –2 tbspn)

416 calorie Dinner: chicken breast  (130 calories) in 1 tbspn  (119 calories) olive oil with spinach (7 calories) and alfredo sauce made from: 1/2 cup probiotic milk (65 calories), 2 tbspn chicken broth (5 calories), 2 tbspn Vosko’s greek yogurt (25 calories) , 1/4 cup lowfat parmesan cheese (65 calories).  I did not eat most of the alfredo sauce.  Just cooked the chicken and spinach in it, then picked them out as as I ate it and washed the rest of the sauce down the drain.

80 calorie Snack: 1/ 2 cup sugar free fat free chocolate fudge pudding made with probiotic milk (80 calories)

So that is a total of 1850 calories.  I am trying to meet my calorie allotment as advised by a friend’s trainer.  1850 is still a seriously controlled calorie count for me.  I am generously giving myself calories in the above count too.  I threw out some of my eggs and didn’t eat my alfredo sauce. 

The weight should be coming off. 

I will weigh myself at the end of this cycle and look for that weight loss.

Until then…. good night.

Any advice????